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The park & ride is operated by a local bus company and was always a white elephant. Only a third full at the best of times. Because they charged per passenger on the bus, If there were four of you it was the same price as parking in the town centre carparks with out the hassle of a bus trip, so shoppers didn't us it and as it used to lock the gates at 5.30pm workers didn't either.

They've stopped taking motorhomes as they are reinventing themselves as err !!  "something else" It will soon have a train station for London commuters and charges will probably go up.

Just to add to the chaos we endure on a daily basis the council have installed numerous sets of traffic lights on the Birmingham road causing gridlock to a once free running road and they are planning more.

If after reading this you still want to visit try and approach on the old Warwick road. As soon as you join the inner ring road you take the first turn left into the motorhome carpark behind the Leisure/Swiming centre which is quite good and not to far from the town.

It is quite noticable that the local decision makers have nice houses and cars, just saying.

Rant over

pieface

The same thing happened to us, the missus said oh look park and ride and I said yeah lets do that and then we met the height barrier, we actually did go into the lorry coach park behind the leisure centre, there I had a problem with the ticket machine which wants you to confirm that you understand that you are parking at your own risk, but there are 5 buttons you could press to confirm but they don't tell you which one it is, by the time I had pressed wrongly 4 times and had my money returned I decided to not put so much in and in the end only paid for 2 hours which to be honest was just about right after we had a crappy cream tea a walk down the river and around the town and we were glad to leave.

Another place with height barriers was Rye which looked really nice but lost our custom as we couldn't park!